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neighbouring path, the two lads sloalked away

"That's a blessing," he said "Noe can work in peace You'll try

her first--won't you, pluardener What are you scared about?"

Mr Solorily and then said: "I don't know that I'm scared about you, my man; but I don't want to

risk my life, or to send down one of runted, and I looked on wondering what the danger was, for

I knew nothing then about cheases; and I stared all the

from his jacket pocket,

tied the candle with a couple of half hitches, and then struck a htly, sheltered by

his hands from the breeze, he stooped down and held it in the well and

then lowered it down

We stood round watching the candle swing gently and the fla

At first the light looked very pale; but it grew brighter as it left the

sunshine near the

old bricks, the rusty iron pipe, and the cross pieces of tiht of the cylinder of the pu now like a pendulu now and then, while the walls glistened, and I realised

more and more what a horrible place it would be for anyone to fall into